Reset of leagues

[Kamikaze28]

(07-10-2012 04:37 AM)yasw Wrote:  With a multiplayer game like this, it is clearly important in getting a good start. And I still think they have generally done that very well. The game feels very well tested with balanced gamemechanics and no gamebreaking bugs. Unlike how for example Empire of the Eclipse started out...

Most of the problems is still down to something that can hardly be tested in any betatest, which is players not finishing their games, thus making it take days to just get started in your league. Playing five games would likely be nothing a few weeks from now where the community is more stable, but now it is frustrating because we are still excited about a totally new game and wanna play it alot and taking days to get yourself in a league is a pain.

Maybe some of the problems could have been anticipated and dealt with having fewer days per turn or maybe not even having to do a first ranking and just let everybody start in the middle league and let it play from there. But that is all just hindsight.

That's a very reasonable assessment of the situation. More often than once the phrase "we can't test this with our limited player pool" was uttered in the beta forums. The limitation on beta testers wasn't even OMLs fault, but Apple policy - you only have 100 slots to give away and if you look into the credits, there are 55 beta testers listed and a 11 local testers. There were certainly some friends and family beta testers too. I'd say, they made the most of what they had.